US8049873B2 - Surgical microscopy system having an optical coherence tomography facility - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a surgical microscopy system having an optical coherence tomography (OCT) facility.
- OCT optical coherence tomography
- the present invention relates to a surgical microscopy system having an OCT facility, wherein a beam of measuring light is scanned across an object to be analyzed by the OCT facility.
- An OCT system is for example known from EP 0 697 611 A2.
- a broad-band OCT-light source generates OCT-measuring light comprising different wavelengths within a certain bandwidth.
- a principal wavelength generated by the OCT-light source and the bandwidth of the OCT-light source determine the coherence length of the OCT-measuring light.
- Two different parts of the OCT-measuring light can interferometrically only be superimposed, if a difference of optical path lengths traversed by the two different parts of OCT-measuring light is smaller than the coherence length of the OCT-light source.
- a first part of the OCT-measuring light is reflected by a reference surface, such as a plane mirror, to traverse a controllable optical path length.
- the second part of the OCT-measuring light is directed to an object to be investigated and is reflected at regions in different depths of the object.
- this second part of the OCT-measuring light reflected at the object is comprised of a number of OCT-measuring light portions that have traversed different optical path lengths depending on the depth of the region of the object at which they were reflected.
- the reference surface is displaced, for example using a continuous movement or in a stepwise manner, such that the different OCT-measuring light portions reflected from the object interferometrically superimpose with the first part of the OCT-measuring light reflected by the reference surface at positions of the reference surface, where the OCT-measuring light portions reflected from the object have traversed an optical path length substantially equal to the optical path length traversed by the reflected first part of the OCT-measuring light.
- This allows to gain structural information of the object in an axial (i.e. depth) direction defined by the direction of incidence of the OCT-measuring light at the object.
- the second part of the OCT-measuring light needs to be scanned across a laterally extended region at the object.
- a scanning system is utilized including for example two mirrors spaced apart that are rotatable about axes perpendicular to each other.
- This three-dimensional representation is in particular valuable for a surgeon to locate structure portions within the volume of the object to be manipulated, in particular useful during opthalmologic surgeries.
- These surgeries may be directed to regions of an anterior portion of the eye or may be directed to regions of a posterior portion of the eye.
- imaging the cornea by OCT and adjacent regions or imaging the retina by OCT have found widespread demand during opthalmologic surgeries.
- An optical microscopy system includes an objective lens and an ocular system to image an illuminated region of an object. For this, a user may look through the ocular system to directly image the object region to his or her retina, or may look at an image acquired by a CCD camera. A CCD acquired image may be displayed to a desk monitor or may be displayed for example to a head-mounted display.
- the beam path of the system is parallel downstream of the objective lens. This allows in a simple way to provide a stereoscopic optical microscopy system, wherein light emanated from the object under slightly different angles is guided downstream the objective lens to two tubular bodies harboring two oculars for the left and the right eye of the observer. Thereby, an enlarged stereoscopic imaging of the object is possible.
- a stereoscopic optical microscopy turns out to be indispensable for opthalmologic surgeries.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a microscopy system that integrates an optical microscopy system and an OCT system that reduces the disadvantages of the prior art mentioned above.
- An even further object of the present invention is to provide a surgical microscopy system particularly suitable for opthalmologic surgeries.
- the present invention has been accomplished taking the above problems into consideration.
- a surgical microscopy system having an optical coherence tomography (OCT) facility
- OCT optical coherence tomography
- the system comprises microscopy optics for generating an image of a first object region.
- the microscopy optics comprises an objective lens.
- the surgical microscopy system further includes an OCT system providing an OCT beam path and comprising a OCT-measuring light source, a reflector, imaging optics disposed between the light source and the reflector, and the imaging optics and a beam scanner disposed between the OCT-measuring light source and the imaging optics, wherein the reflector is configured and arranged to reflect a beam of OCT-measuring light, supplied from the imaging optics, such that it traverses the objective lens and is directed onto the first object region, and wherein the imaging optics is configured and arranged such that a second object region located near the beam scanner is optically imaged into an image region located near the reflector.
- OCT system providing an OCT beam path and comprising a OCT-measuring light source, a reflector, imaging optics disposed between the light source and the reflector, and the imaging optics and a beam scanner disposed between the OCT-measuring light source and the imaging optics
- the reflector is configured and arranged to
- the first object region may be located in an object plane of the microscopy optics.
- the microscopy optics is arranged to receive light from the illuminated first object region for imaging the first object region.
- the microscopy optics may comprise plural refractive and/or diffractive optical elements.
- the microscopy optics may be adapted for stereoscopic optical imaging.
- the microscopy optics may further comprise a camera for acquiring an image of the first object region. The image acquired by the camera may be displayed on displays such as a monitor or a head-mounted display.
- the OCT system may be a time domain OCT system (TD-OCT) or a frequency domain OCT system (FD-OCT). Both types have a time encoded and a spatially encoded subtype, wherein a depth scan is either performed sequentially over time or simultaneously by employing a spatially resolving detector. All these different variants can be used with embodiments of the present invention.
- TD-OCT time domain OCT system
- FD-OCT frequency domain OCT system
- Both types have a time encoded and a spatially encoded subtype, wherein a depth scan is either performed sequentially over time or simultaneously by employing a spatially resolving detector. All these different variants can be used with embodiments of the present invention.
- a number and a configuration of components comprised in the OCT system may vary.
- the measuring light source comprises a broad band OCT-light source adapted for generating OCT-measuring light having a coherence length of several micrometers depending on the application.
- a same or similar OCT-measuring light source may be employed in a sub-type of the FD-OCT system, that is Fourier domain OCT, wherein OCT-measuring light reflected at the object and superimposed with reference light is spectrally separated to obtain a spectrum of the superimposed light. Structural information in different depths within the object may be gained by calculating a Fourier transform of the thus obtained spectrum.
- the OCT-measuring light source comprises a wavelength tunable light source such as a tunable laser. Other components may be varied as well.
- the beam scanner may comprise one or more deflecting elements that are rotatable about axes directed in different directions, preferably perpendicular to each other.
- the reflector may be a mirror and/or a prism, in particular a prism having a form of a cross section of an isosceles triangle.
- the reflector functions to reflect the beam of OCT-measuring light of the OCT system such that it traverses the objective lens and is then incident onto the first object region being the region that is imaged by the microscopy optics.
- the imaging optics is designed to guide light rays emanating from a second object region to the image region located near the reflector such that the position of these rays in the image region is substantially independent of an angle within a particular range at which the rays emanated from the second object region.
- a position of the beam of the OCT-measuring light deflected by the beam scanner incident on the reflector is substantially independent of a direction in which the beam of the OCT-measuring light is deflected by the beam scanner within a particular range of directions.
- the size of the reflector can be decreased to diminish vignetting of microscopy light.
- a disturbance of the beam path of the microscopy optics and a beam path of the OCT system can be reduced.
- the system further comprises collimating optics disposed in the beam path between the OCT-light source and the imaging optics.
- the collimating optics may comprise refractive elements, such as a lens, and/or diffractive elements, such as a grating.
- both the collimating optics and a beam scanner are disposed. These components may be arranged in the order OCT-light source, collimating optics, beam scanner, and imaging optics. In other embodiments these components are arranged in the order OCT-light source, beam scanner, collimating optics and imaging optics. Thus, positions of the components beam scanner and collimating optics may be switched according to requirements of the application.
- ⁇ is a magnification of the imaging optics.
- Distances between optical elements, between regions, or between a region and an optical element are measured along an optical axis of the OCT-system, such as along the OCT beam path.
- optical axis may be defined as the center of the beam of OCT-measuring light traversing the OCT-system.
- Choosing the image region of the imaging optics at the center of the reflector defines the location of the second object region according to parameters of the imaging optics. Disposing at least one deflecting surface of the beam scanner at most in a distance d 1 away from the second object region as defined above ensures that the deflected beam of measuring light is imaged by the imaging optics to a location at most a distance A away from the reflecting portion of the reflector.
- the magnification ⁇ is obtained from parameters of the imaging optics, such as focal length of lenses forming the imaging optics.
- a magnification ⁇ of the imaging optics is changeable.
- changing the optical parameters of the microscopy optics such as by replacing a first microscopy optics by a second microscopy optics, is becomes possible by adjusting the magnification of the imaging optics to maintain a spot size of the OCT-measuring light beam at the first object region, such that a lateral resolution of the OCT-system is unchanged.
- the microscopy optics when the microscopy optics is unchanged, it is possible by adjusting the magnification of the imaging optics to change the spot size of the OCT-measuring light beam at the first object region, in order to change the lateral resolution of the OCT-system.
- the imaging optics comprises an afocal system.
- an afocal system is a system that does not focus parallel light rays traversing the afocal system, but may alter a cross sectional size of a beam of parallel light rays travelling through it.
- the afocal system is in particular useful, when the beam of OCT-measuring light formed by the collimating optics is comprised of a bundle of parallel light rays.
- the beam of OCT-measuring light deflected by the beam scanner is incident on the imaging optics, i.e. the afocal system, as a bundle of parallel light rays.
- the imaging optics is a Kepler telescope.
- a Kepler telescope is made from two lenses or lens groups with positive refractive power, wherein a distance between both lenses substantially matches the sum of their focal lengths.
- a Kepler telescope may image an object disposed in the focal plane of the first lens to an image region in a focal plane of the second lens.
- the object or image planes coincide with the focal planes of the lenses.
- the image region moves apart from the focal plane of the second lens by a second distance that may be derived based on the first distance and a magnification of the Kepler telescope.
- the beam scanner comprises a deflecting surface which is in two different directions independently pivotable and wherein A ⁇ 50 mm.
- the beam scanner is configured as a so-called 3D scanner. It is advantageous to dispose this type of beam scanner more closely to the second object region, in order to reduce movement of an incident position of the beam of OCT-measuring light at the reflector during scanning the beam of OCT-measuring light.
- the beam scanner comprises a deflecting surface independently pivotable about two scanning axes parallel to the deflecting surface, wherein the two scanning axes are transverse, in particular orthogonal, relative to each other and wherein A ⁇ 50 mm.
- the beam scanner comprises two deflecting surfaces disposed apart from each other by a distance, wherein the deflecting surfaces are pivotable independently from each other, and wherein for both deflecting surfaces it holds: d 1 ⁇ 4 mm/ ⁇ .
- the beam scanner comprises a first and a second deflecting surface, wherein the first deflecting surface is pivotable about a first scanning axis parallel to the first deflecting surface, and wherein the second deflecting surface is pivotable about a second scanning axis parallel to the second deflecting surface, wherein the first and the second scanning axes are transverse, in particular orthogonal, relative to each other and wherein for both deflecting surfaces it holds: d 1 ⁇ 4 mm/ ⁇ .
- the microscopy optics comprises a zoom system for changing a magnification of the microscopy optics.
- the zoom system may be arranged downstream of the objective lens of the microscopy optics.
- the OCT-beam path of the OCT system is outside of the zoom system.
- the beam of OCT-measuring light of the OCT system may not traverse the zoom system.
- the performance and functionality of the OCT system is not influenced, and thus not impaired by changing the magnification of the zoom system comprised in the microscopy optics.
- the surgical microscopy system comprises an opthalmologic lens for examining a retina of an eye of a patient.
- the effective diameter of the reflector may be computed from parameters of the collimating optics and the imaging optics, but may substantially not depend on a rotation angle of scanning mirrors comprised in the beam scanner.
- the effective diameter of an optical element may in general be defined by the diameter of a cross sectional region of the corresponding element that allows incident light to traverse the corresponding optical element perpendicular to a plane of the cross section.
- the surgical microscopy system further comprises a wavefront sensor having a wavefront measuring light entrance; and a wavefront sensor imaging lens, wherein a beam path of wavefront measuring light traverses the objective lens, the imaging optics and the wavefront sensor imaging lens such that the first object region is imaged to the wavefront measuring light entrance of the wavefront sensor.
- a wavefront sensor is a device for characterizing a shape of a wavefront of wavefront measuring light entering the wavefront sensor at the wavefront measuring light entrance.
- An example of a wavefront sensor is the Hartmann-Shack-sensor.
- the Hartmann-Shack-sensor comprises a microlens array and a positionally resolving light detector arranged within a focal plane of the microlens array.
- the microlens array comprises plural microlenses arranged in a plane side by side. The plane of the microlens array corresponds to the wavefront measuring light entrance of the Hartmann-Shack-sensor.
- Each microlens of the microlens array has positive optical power and focuses a portion of the wavefront measuring light entering the wavefront sensor to a location at the positional resolving detector.
- the position of the location at the positional resolving detector depends on an inclination of the wavefront of the portion of the wavefront measuring light traversing this particular microlens.
- the other microlenses analogously focus other portions of the wavefront measuring light entering the wavefront sensor to other locations at the positionally resolving detector.
- the positions of the locations may be determined by image processing known in the art. From the determined positions of the focused portions of the wavefront measuring light plural inclinations of the wavefront at the wavefront measuring light entrance of the wavefront sensor may be derived. From the derived plural inclinations a shape of the wavefront of the wavefront measuring light entering the wavefront sensor at the wavefront measuring light entrance can be determined.
- wavefront sensors instead of using a Hartmann-Shack-sensor other types of wavefront sensors may be employed, such as a wavefront curvature sensor, a common path interferometer, a shearing interferometer, and the like.
- the imaging optics and the wavefront sensor imaging lens By traversal of the wavefront measuring light through the objective lens, the imaging optics and the wavefront sensor imaging lens the first object region is imaged to the wavefront measuring light entrance of the wavefront sensor.
- a shape of a wavefront of wavefront measuring light at the first object region can be deduced from a shape of the wavefront of wavefront measuring light entering the wavefront sensor at the wavefront measuring light entrance.
- the wavefront measuring light entrance of the wavefront sensor may be arranged within a focal plane of the wavefront sensor imaging lens.
- the surgical microscopy system further comprises an actuator to move the wavefront sensor and the wavefront sensor imaging lens relative to the imaging optics.
- moving the wavefront sensor together with the wavefront sensor imaging lens relative to the imaging optics may compensate for the spherical part of the shape of the wavefront of the wavefront measuring light.
- a distance between an assembly of the wavefront sensor and the wavefront sensor imaging lens and the imaging optics may be adjusted such that the shape of the wavefront measuring light incident at the wavefront sensor light entrance is approximately spherical having a large radius of curvature, such as 1 m, preferably 5 m, such that it is approximately a plane.
- the opportunity to move the wavefront sensor and the wavefront sensor imaging lens relative to the imaging optics may increase the dynamic range of the system for wavefront measuring.
- the surgical microscopy system further comprises a wavefront measuring light source for generating the wavefront measuring light; and a partially reflecting face arranged in the beam path of the wavefront measuring light between the wavefront measuring light source and the wavefront sensor light entrance.
- the partially reflecting face may be arranged between the wavefront sensor imaging lens and the wavefront measuring light source.
- the partially reflecting face may be arranged between the wavefront sensor imaging lens and the wavefront measuring light entrance of the wavefront sensor.
- the wavefront measuring light Before entering the wavefront measuring light entrance the wavefront measuring light may be transmitted through or reflected at the partially reflecting face.
- the wavefront measuring light originating from the wavefront measuring light source Before traversing the wavefront sensor imaging lens the wavefront measuring light originating from the wavefront measuring light source may be transmitted through or reflected at the partially reflecting face.
- the wavefront measuring light has a wavelength in a first wavelength range and the OCT-measuring light has a wavelength in a second wavelength range.
- the first wavelength range may be different from the second wavelength range.
- the first and the second wavelength ranges may overlap. Preferably they do not overlap.
- one of the wavefront measuring light and the OCT measuring light has a wavelength in one of a range from 800 nm to 870 nm, in particular a range from 820 nm to 840 nm, and a range from 1280 nm to 1340 nm, in particular in a range from 1300 nm to 1320 nm.
- the other one of the wavefront measuring light and the OCT measuring light has a wavelength in the other one of the range from 800 nm to 870 nm and the range from 1280 nm to 1340 nm.
- the surgical microscopy system further comprises a dichroitic beam splitter arranged in the beam path of the wavefront measuring light between the wavefront sensor imaging lens and the imaging optics.
- the dichroitic beam splitter may be configured to selectively transmit light in the wave length range from 800 nm to 870 nm and selectively reflect light in the wave length range from 1280 nm to 1340 nm or may be configured to selectively reflect light in the wave length range from 800 nm 870 nm and to selectively transmit light in the wave length range from 1280 nm to 1340 nm.
- the surgical microscopy system may be provided with additional components designed for analyzing different parts of a patient's eye.
- These components may include an opthalmologic lens to be disposed close to the patient's eye, and a reduction lens to be arranged between the opthalmologic lens and the objective lens of the microscopy optics.
- an opthalmologic lens to be disposed close to the patient's eye
- a reduction lens to be arranged between the opthalmologic lens and the objective lens of the microscopy optics.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a surgical microscopy system according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a beam path within the OCT facility of the surgical microscopy system according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a portion of a surgical microscopy system illustrated in FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a further surgical microscopy system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in particular indicating the OCT beam path;
- FIG. 4B illustrates the surgical microscopy system of FIG. 4A in particular indicating the beam path of the wavefront measuring light.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a surgical microscopy system 100 according to the present invention.
- the surgical microscopy system 100 is comprised of microscopy optics 110 and an OCT system 120 .
- the microscopy optics 110 images a first object region 14 , in this case a retina of a patient's eye 8 , to a retina of a left eye 22 a and a retina of a right eye 22 b of a user of the microscopy system.
- the patient's eye 8 is illuminated with illumination light generated by a not illustrated illumination light source.
- the illumination light source may be a xenon light source or a halogen light source or the like.
- Light emanating from the first object region 14 traverses the patient's eye lens 8 ′, traverses the ophthalmic lens 7 to form an intermediate image in the intermediate image plane 17 .
- Light 18 emanating from the intermediate image in the intermediate image plane 17 traverses the reduction lens 6 and travels through the objective lens 5 .
- a parallel light beam 19 is formed which is separately guided into two tubes, a left tube and a right tube comprising a left zoom system 20 and a right zoom system 20 ′, respectively, as well as a left ocular system 21 and a right ocular system 21 ′, respectively.
- the left beam 19 is received by the user's left eye 22 and the right beam 19 ′ is received by the user's right eye 22 ′.
- Reference numeral 17 indicates an optical axis of the microscopy optics 110 .
- the OCT system 120 comprises components for generating and guiding a beam of OCT-measuring light 13 as well as components for generating a reference beam, interferometrically superimposing the reference beam with a beam 13 ′′ reflected from the object 8 as well as components to detect the superimposed light beams.
- the OCT-measuring light is guided through a fiber 23 and is emitted by a fiber tip 1 .
- the OCT-measuring light is formed by a Gaussian beam.
- the OCT-measuring light emitted by the fiber tip 1 traverses collimating optics 4 to form a substantially parallel beam of OCT-measuring light 13 .
- the beam of OCT-measuring light 13 is subsequently deflected by a first scanning mirror 2 to deflect the beam of OCT-measuring light 13 towards a second scanning mirror 3 .
- the distance between the scanning mirrors is 8 mm in the illustrated embodiment.
- the beam of OCT-measuring light first traverses the two scanning mirrors 2 , 3 and then traverses the collimating optics 4 .
- fiber tip 1 , collimating optics 4 and scanning mirror 2 are not correctly depicted in FIGS. 1 and 3 .
- Their proper orientation is obtained by rotating them for 90° out of the paper plane of FIGS. 1 and 3 about the connection line between both scanning mirrors 2 and 3 .
- Scanning mirror 2 rotated for 90° out of the paper plane is rotatable about an axis in the paper plane that is horizontally oriented in FIG. 1 .
- scanning mirror 3 is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the paper plane.
- the two rotation axes of scanning mirrors 2 and 3 are oriented perpendicular to each other.
- the beam of OCT-measuring light 13 deflected by scanning mirrors 2 and 3 traverses the imaging optics 29 .
- the imaging optics 29 is formed by a first lens group 9 and a second lens group 11 that are spaced apart by a distance of the sum of their focal lengths.
- the imaging optics 29 is designed as a Kepler telescope.
- the beam of OCT-measuring light 13 is reflected at a reflector 12 , traverses the objective lens 5 , the reduction lens 6 , the ophthalmic lens 7 of the microscopy optics 110 and the natural lens of the human eye 8 to be incident at the first object region 14 placed at an posterior portion of the eye 8 .
- the reduction lens 6 and the ophthalmic lens 7 of the microscopy optics 110 are withdrawn from the OCT-beam path and the beam path of the microscopy system.
- the first object region 14 is placed at an anterior portion of the eye 8 such that for example the cornea or the anterior eye chamber can be investigated.
- the collimating optics can be considered to be part of the imaging optics 29 , such that there is no separate collimating optics distinct from the imaging optics required.
- FIG. 1 can be modified in a number of ways to provide a zoomable system:
- an afocal zoom system as is e.g. known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,991,090 or DE 198 37 135 A1 may be arranged between the collimating optics 4 and the beam scanner formed by scanning mirrors 2 and 3 .
- a further modification can be achieved by replacing the Kepler telescope formed by lenses 9 and 11 by an afocal zoom system as is known from e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 5,991,090 or DE 198 37 135 A1.
- An even further modification comprises replacing the collimator 4 by a zoom system known from conventional photography.
- the spot size of the beam of OCT-measuring light can be adjusted appropriately.
- OCT-measuring light reflected at the object at different depths of the object 8 traverses the ophthalmic lens 7 , the reduction lens 6 , the objective lens 5 , is reflected by the reflector 12 , traverses the imaging optics 29 , is deflected by the scanning mirrors 2 and 3 , traverses the collimating optics 4 and enters the fiber tip 1 .
- the beam of OCT-measuring light returning from the probe arm 35 of the OCT-system 120 is guided by the fiber 23 to the Fourier-domain OCT illumination and analysis system 24 .
- the beam of measuring light returned from the probe arm 35 is interferometrically superimposed with a reference beam.
- the superimposed light is dispersed into a frequency spectrum by a spectrometer.
- a distribution of reflectivities in different depths (axial direction) of the object 8 at a certain area in a lateral plane can be obtained by Fourier transformation of the spectrum.
- the beam of measuring light 13 In order to acquire structural information about the object across a region in the lateral plane the beam of measuring light 13 needs to be deflected to be directed to different areas within that region in the lateral plane. Therefore, the beam of measuring light 13 is scanned across the object 8 using the scan mirrors 2 and 3 .
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a part of the surgical microscopy system 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 .
- a OCT beam path of the OCT system 120 leads from the fiber tip 1 emitting OCT-measuring light to the reflector 12 which reflects the beam of OCT-measuring light such that it traverses the objective lens 5 of the microscopy optics 110 .
- the fiber tip 1 , the collimating optics 4 , the scanning mirror 2 and the scanning mirror 3 , the lens group 9 , the lens group 11 and the reflector 12 are configured such that a point M in the middle of the connecting line between the centers of the scanning mirrors 2 and 3 in a plane 15 ′ is mapped to a point M′ in the middle of the reflector 12 within a plane 16 ′ comprising an image region 16 .
- H 9 ′ denote principal optical planes of the lens group 9 and H 11
- H 11 ′ denote principal optical planes of the lens group 11
- bundles 13 1 , 13 2 and 13 3 (each formed by five rays corresponding to different rotational orientations of the scanning mirror 3 ) being incident on scanning mirrors 2 and 3 at three different positions are illustrated in FIG. 3 .
- Each of these bundles 13 1 , 13 2 and 13 3 is deflected at the scanning mirror 3 and traverses the imaging optics (comprised of lens groups 9 and 11 ) resulting in bundles 13 ′ 1 , 13 ′ 2 and 13 ′ 3 .
- bundles 13 ′ 1 , 13 ′ 2 and 13 ′ 3 are imaged to an image region located in a plane displaced by a distance d 2 from the point M′ in the middle of the reflector 12 .
- a point p 3 in the middle of the scanning mirror 3 is imaged to a point p 3 ′ located downstream the reflector 12 .
- An analogous point in the middle of the scanning mirror 2 is imaged to a point upstream the reflector 12 .
- the imaging optics 29 comprised of lens groups 9 and 11 forms an afocal system in this embodiment.
- the Kepler telescope comprised in the surgical microscopy system 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 is schematically illustrated.
- the Kepler telescope may in its simplest case be comprised of lenses 9 and 11 having positive refractive power.
- the focal length of lens 9 is indicated by f 9 and the focal length of lens 11 is indicated by f 11 .
- the lenses 9 and 11 are disposed such that a distance between them is the sum of the focal lengths of both lenses, namely the distance is f 9 +f 11 .
- An object being disposed in a distance corresponding to the focal length of lens 9 i.e. f 9
- upstream of lens 9 is imaged downstream the lens 11 at a distance apart from lens 11 corresponding to the focal length of lens 11 , i.e.
- the object may also be disposed in distances from the lens 9 that are larger or smaller than the focal length f 9 of the lens 9 . In this case the object will be imaged to a plane downstream of lens 11 that is disposed at a distance smaller or lager than f 11 .
- the observations ray paths behind the objective lens 5 are parallel.
- the image plane for observation may coincide with the image plane for the OCT image.
- the OCT beam path downstream the objective lens may be nearly parallel.
- the scanning mirrors 2 , 3 should not be located in a convergent OCT beam path but preferably in a parallel OCT beam path. It may be disadvantageous to locate the scanning mirrors 2 , 3 downstream and too close to the objective lens 5 , because the OCT optical components may occupy a lot of space directly downstream the objective lens and could shadow light used for microscopic imaging.
- an afocal system may be used which is located between the scanning mirrors 2 , 3 and the objective lens 5 . This afocal system may map a point M on an optical axis in the middle of both scanning mirrors 2 , 3 to the center of the reflector 12 .
- the space required for OCT components directly downstream the objective lens 5 may be minimized and the scanning mirrors may be located in a parallel OCT beam of OCT measuring light.
- the afocal system may provide a real image of point M, because the center of the reflector may be positioned at this image.
- the most simple afocal system which fulfills this property may be a well-known Kepler telescope which is made from two lenses 9 , 11 with positive refraction power where the distance between both lenses matches the sum of their focal lengths.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a Kepler system which images the focal plane of the first lens 9 to the focal plane of the second lens 11 .
- the object or image planes coincide with the focal planes of the lenses.
- the object plane (left in FIG. 2 ) is moved for the distance l object to the right or left, also the image plane moves to the right or left for the distance
- ⁇ is the lateral magnification of the Kepler telescope
- ⁇ 2 is the corresponding longitudinal magnification
- f 9 and f 11 are the focal lengths of the lens elements building up the Kepler telescope.
- a Gaussian beam emitted by the fiber tip 1 may be imaged onto the retina at 14 , thereby the position of the waist may coincide with the position of the retina.
- a usual measure for the lateral resolution of the OCT system at the retina is the waist radius w retina from the OCT path at the retina.
- considerations concerning the paraxial optical layout may be simplified by replacing the Gaussian beam by a light bundle with an aperture matching the divergence of the beam at the retina.
- NAO of this light bundle at the retina is given by
- NAO ⁇ w retina ⁇ ⁇
- f eye is the focal length of the eye on retina's side
- n vitreous is the refractive index of the vitreous humor of the eye.
- the focal length of the objective lens 5 and the FIS consisting of a reduction lens 6 and an ophthalmic lens 7 are considered to be given from application specific constraints. These three components may also form an afocal system which converts a parallel ray bundle with radius r eye in front of patient's eye to a parallel ray bundle with radius
- f 11 2 ⁇ k ⁇ r 11 (3)
- equation 3 may be regarded as giving a lower limit of the focal length f 11 . Since the overall length of the OCT optical components may decrease with decreasing focal lengths f 9 and f 11 , it may be an advantage to choose f 11 according to equation 3 with f-number k ⁇ 4.
- the focal length f 9 may determine the longitudinal magnification ⁇ 2 . Since we may need two scanning mirrors with mutual distance d S , it may be impossible to image both mirrors simultaneously onto the reflector 12 by the Kepler telescope. In order to keep the reflector 12 as small as possible, the image of the first scanning mirror 2 may be located in a distance d upstream of the reflector 12 , whereas the second scanning mirror 3 may be located in a distance d downstream of the reflector 12 . Using equation 1, one obtains
- the central OCT ray may move by a distance ⁇ on the reflector, when one of the scanning mirrors is swinging.
- the distance ⁇ should be as small as possible in order to keep the reflector 12 downstream of the objective lens 5 as small as possible.
- the distance ⁇ can be derived as follows.
- a proper OCT specification may also define an angle ⁇ eye which is the maximum angle of OCT light to the optical axis of patient's eye.
- the focal length f 4 of the collimating optics 4 may be calculated according to
- Equation 2 to 5 may allow to derive an exemplary paraxial layout of the system 100 as detailed in table 1.
- optical data for the surgical microscopy system illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 3 are given in the following Table 1. Thereby the following abbreviations are used: trans for transmissive, refl for reflective, c for circular, r for rectangular and e for elliptical.
- the focal length of the collimating optics 4 and the lens elements of the Kepler telescope 9 , 11 may be derived under the following assumptions:
- the ray bundle radius between the objective lens 5 and the second lens element 11 of the Kepler telescope may be
- the focal length of the collimating optics 4 may be calculated according to equation 5:
- the second lens group 11 of the Kepler telescope may be moved along the optical axis for a short distance. This may allow to optimize the OCT signal to obtain an optimal lateral resolution of the OCT image.
- the ophthalmic lens 7 and the reduction lens 6 can optionally be inserted into beam path of the microscopy optics or retracted from the beam path of the microscopy optics 110 .
- the OCT system 120 it is possible to obtain structural volume data of the respective portion of the patient's eye 8 .
- the observer is provided with an optical image and at the same time with a representation of cross sectional structural data of the respective portion of the patient's eye 8 irrespective which portion of the patient's eye is examined.
- FIGS. 4A and 4B schematically illustrate a further surgical microscopy system 100 a according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the surgical microscopy system 100 a illustrated in FIGS. 4A and 4B additionally comprises a wavefront measuring system 130 a.
- the Fourier-domain OCT illumination and analysis system 24 a comprises an OCT measuring light source which generates OCT measuring light 13 .
- the OCT measuring light 13 is guided by optical fiber 23 a to exit at fiber tip 1 a .
- OCT measuring light 13 traverses collimating optics 4 a which collimates the OCT measuring light 13 to substantially plane wavefronts.
- OCT measuring light 13 is then reflected at scan mirror 3 a and scan mirror 2 a which are pivotable about axes perpendicular to each other.
- beam paths of the OCT measuring light for three different pivoting positions of scan mirror 2 a are illustrated.
- the OCT measuring light comprising wavelengths in a range from 1280 nm to 1340 nm, in particular from 1300 nm to 1320 nm, is reflected at the dichroitic beam splitter 30 a which reflects this wavelength range with high efficiency.
- the OCT measuring light 13 then traverses the imaging optics 29 a configured as an afocal system.
- the imaging optics 29 a comprises the lens group 9 a and the lens group 11 a which are spaced apart by a distance corresponding to the sum of their focal lengths.
- the lens group 9 a and the lens group 11 a together form a Kepler system.
- the imaging optics 29 a is configured and arranged such that a point between the two scan mirrors 3 a and 2 a is imaged to a center of the reflector 12 a , as described in detail above in particular referring to FIG. 3 .
- the OCT measuring light 13 ′ having traversed the imaging optics 29 a is reflected at the reflector 12 a such that it traverses the objective lens 5 a and is incident onto the first object region 14 comprised in an object plane 14 ′, where an anterior portion of an eye 8 is placed.
- the fiber tip 1 a is imaged to three different positions 50 at the first object region 14 .
- OCT measuring light 13 ′ is reflected at the anterior portion of the eye 8 as OCT measuring light 13 ′′.
- OCT measuring light 13 ′′ traverses the same optical elements as OCT measuring light 13 but in reversed order to reach optical fiber tip 1 a from where it is guided via optical fiber 23 a to the Fourier domain OCT illumination and analysis system 24 a .
- the OCT measuring light 13 ′′ returned from the object 8 is superimposed with reference light, detected and processed to obtain structural information about the object 8 .
- the surgical microscopy system 100 a comprises microscopy optics 10 a comprising lens systems 20 a and 20 a ′ and lens systems 21 a and 21 a ′ for stereoscopic microscopic imaging of the first object region 14 .
- Lens systems 20 a and 21 a form a zoom system for the eye 22
- lens systems 20 a ′ and 21 a ′ form a zoom system for the eye 22 ′.
- FIGS. 4A and 4B an ocular between each zoom system and the respective eye is not illustrated.
- the microscopic image and the structure data obtained by the OCT system 120 a may be displayed in a superimposed manner.
- the wavefront measuring system 130 a comprises a wavefront measuring light source 31 a , a wavefront sensor 45 , a beam splitter 34 a , and wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a.
- the wavefront measuring light source 31 a generates wavefront measuring light 32 a having wavelengths in a range from 800 nm to 870 nm, in particular from 820 nm to 840 nm.
- the wavefront measuring light 32 a traverses collimating optics 33 a which transforms the wavefront measuring light 32 a in substantially plane wavefronts.
- the wavefront measuring light 32 a is reflected at a beam splitter 34 a and traverses the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a which focuses the wavefront measuring light 32 a at a point 36 a in the center of an aperture 37 a .
- the aperture 37 a is arranged away from the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a by a distance that corresponds to a focal length of the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a.
- the wavefront measuring light 32 a subsequently traverses the dichroitic beam splitter 30 a which transmits the wavefront measuring light having wave lengths in a range from 800 nm to 870 nm to a high degree.
- the wavefront measuring light 32 a subsequently traverses the imaging optics 29 a , is reflected at the reflector 12 a , traverses the objective lens 5 a such that the wavefront measuring light 32 a is incident onto the first object region 14 arranged in the object plane 14 ′ substantially as plane wavefronts.
- the plane wavefronts of the wavefront measuring light 32 a traverse the anterior portion of the eye 8 , in particular comprising the cornea and the natural lens 8 ′, to be focused at a point 38 at the retina 39 of the eye 8 .
- an eye without a natural lens may be investigated, i.e. an eye free of a natural lens. This condition is reached after the natural lens has been removed during a cataract surgery. In this condition the eye has a strong spherical ametropia, but the measured shape of the wavefront will be indicative of what kind of intraocular lens must be inserted to restore an emmetropic eye.
- the eye may comprise an intraocular lens which has been inserted during a cataract surgery.
- the intraocular lens may be positioned correctly, in particular concerning correction of astigmatism, and whether the surgery will be successful.
- the wavefront measuring light 32 a is sharply focused at the point 38 only if the eye is emmetropic, that means only if the length of the eye corresponds to a focal length of the refractive components of the eye, in particular the cornea and the natural lens, and if these refractive components do not show other non-spherical aberrations.
- the illumination point 38 at the retina 39 diffusely reflects wavefront measuring light 40 as substantially spherical wavefronts.
- the wavefront measuring light 40 reflected at the point 38 traverses the natural lens and the cornea, traverses the objective lens 5 a , is reflected at the reflector 12 a , traverses the imaging optics 29 a , transmits the dichroitic beam splitter 30 a and is focused at the point 36 a in the center of the aperture 37 a.
- the wavefront measuring light 40 traverses the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a which transforms the wavefront measuring light 40 into substantially plane wavefronts, when the eye 8 is an ideal emmetropic eye which optical components do not have optical aberrations.
- the wavefront measuring light 40 enters a wavefront measuring light entrance 41 of a wavefront sensor 45 .
- the wavefront sensor 45 is enlarged compared to the beam splitter 34 a .
- the wavefront measuring light entrance 41 is situated in a plane 42 where an array of microlenses 43 is arranged.
- a positionally resolving detector 44 is arranged to detect positions of focused portions of the wavefront measuring light. Deviations of the positions of focused portions of wavefront measuring light from ideal positions indicate a deviation of a shape of wavefront measuring light 40 from the shape of plane wavefronts.
- the first object region 14 comprising the object 8 is imaged by the objective lens 5 a , the imaging optics 29 a and the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a to the wavefront measuring light entrance 41 .
- the point 50 at the first object region is imaged to the point 50 ′ at the wavefront measuring light entrance 41 of a wavefront sensor 45 , as illustrated by beam path 40 ′.
- the shape of the wavefront at the first object region 14 can be determined using the wavefront measuring system 130 a comprised in the surgical microscopy system 100 a.
- the surgical microscopy system further comprises an actuator 46 which is adapted to move the wavefront sensor 45 , the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a , and aperture 37 a relative to the imaging optics 29 a along directions indicated by the double arrow 47 .
- an actuator 46 which is adapted to move the wavefront sensor 45 , the wavefront sensor imaging lens 35 a , and aperture 37 a relative to the imaging optics 29 a along directions indicated by the double arrow 47 .
- the microscopy system can be configured to utilize the structural information about the investigated object obtained by the OCT-facility to improve the accuracy of the measurement of the shape of the wavefront of the measuring light.
- One way is to measure a distance between the object and a reference face, such as an optical face of the objective lens of the microscopy system closest to the object, by the OCT-facility.
- the measured distance may be supplemented to the wavefront measuring data to improve the accuracy of the wavefront measurement.
- a problem often occurring during conventional wavefront measurements is that the optical axis of the eye does not align with the optical axis of the wavefront measuring system. In this condition the point where the wavefront measuring light is focused at the retina is not close to the fovea and the wavefront measurement of the eye is strongly impaired.
- the exact orientation of the eye, in particular the anterior portion of the eye may be determined. The patient can then be asked to move his or her eye in order to ensure that the orientation of the eye is optimal for the wavefront measurement.
- Changing a magnification of the zoom system 20 , 21 in the surgical microscopy system does not affect a measurement of an object using the OCT system 120 , since the beam path of the OCT system lies outside the zoom system 20 , that means a beam of OCT measuring light 13 of the OCT path does not traverse the zoom system 20 .
- a waist radius of the beam of OCT measuring light of the OCT system at the object may not change upon changing the magnification of the zoom system 20 .
- a lateral resolution and a brightness of the OCT volume data may not change upon changing the magnification of the zoom system 20 .
- FIGS. 1 , 3 , 4 A and 4 B Another advantage of the surgical microscopy system illustrated in FIGS. 1 , 3 , 4 A and 4 B is that an extension of the reflector 12 , sometimes also called “fold mirror” in systems of that kind, can be set minimal as required by the lateral resolution to be achieved and required by optical elements other than the scanning mirrors. The reason is that a position of the beam of OCT measuring light 13 incident on the reflector 12 varies only by a small amount upon changing rotational positions of the scanning mirrors 2 and 3 and ideally does not move at all, such as for a 3D-scanner.
- a reflector 12 having a minimal extension that means minimal effective diameter D r
- D r minimal effective diameter
- the surgical microscopy system is designed such that a pupil of the beam of OCT measuring light of the OCT system may be located in the proximity of the objective lens 5 of the microscopy optics. Therefore, more space for other ray paths of the surgical microscopy system may be available.
- the scanning mirrors 2 and 3 may be located at positions, where the beam of OCT measuring light 13 of the OCT system is comprised of a bundle of parallel light rays.
- the beam of OCT measuring light 13 of the OCT system is comprised of a bundle of parallel light rays.
- the relation between scanning mirror rotation and scan position of spot on the object are same for each scanning mirror.
- the focal length of the objective lens 5 may be changed.
- the focal lengths of reduction lens 6 and ophthalmic lens 7 may be changed. Decreasing the focal length, the observer sees an increasing opening of the retina with decreasing magnification.
- a field lens may be disposed near the beam stop 10 of the imaging optics to control the distance between the second lens group 111 and the reflector 12 .
- the Kepler telescope comprised of lens groups 9 and 11 may be replaced by an afocal zoom system where a magnification ⁇ is tunable.
- the collimating optics 4 may be replaced by a zoom system. Thereby it may be possible to adapt the OCT system between fiber tip 1 and objective lens 5 for different focal lengths of the objective lens 5 , reduction lens 6 and the ophthalmic lens 7 .
- an optical path length and dispersion of the probe arm 35 and the reference arm of the OCT system should match within the coherence length of the measuring light. This may be achieved by enlarging the air space between collimating optics 4 and the first scanning mirror 2 . For this purpose, between these elements also a plane and parallel plate of optical glass may be introduced.
- the two scanning mirrors 2 and 3 may be replaced by a single 3D scanning mirror as described in the publication of Y. Xu et al., “MEMS based non-rotatory circumferential scanning optical probe for endoscopic optical coherence tomography”, Pro. Of SPIE, Vol. 6627 (2007).
- optical components of the OCT system described above are to be configured such that the center of the 3D scanning mirror is mapped to a region near the center of the reflector 12 .
- equation 4 given above may no longer be needed and the focal length f 9 can be chosen in order to shorten the overall length of the components of the OCT system 120 .
- the present surgical microscopy system is not restricted to Fourier domain OCT as illustrated in the exemplary embodiment 100 of FIG. 1 .
- the OCT system according to the inventive surgical microscopy system may employ any frequency domain OCT system, wherein depths scanning of the object is obtained by either disposing a spectrometer in the beam path of the beam of measuring light of the OCT system, using a wavelength tunable light source of the OCT system or a combination thereof.
- OCT-system may be a Time-domain OCT-system.
- an optical coherence tomography facility is integrated into a microscopy system.
- a beam of measuring light formed by collimating optics of an OCT system is deflected by a beam scanner, traverses imaging optics, and is reflected by a reflector such that the beam of measuring light traverses an objective lens of microscopy optics and is directed to an object region of the microscopy optics.
- a position of the beam of measuring light being incident on the reflector is substantially independent on a direction into which the beam of measuring light is deflected by the beam scanner.
- the beam of measuring light may be a bundle of substantially parallel light rays.
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